Implementing TLS: step 1
Marcel Moolenaar
marcel at xcllnt.net
Thu Jun 19 20:14:00 PDT 2003
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:47:13PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>
> > For that matter %gs:0 need not point to the mailbox at all,
> > since anyoen who needs to find it either has teh time to get it slowely
> > (via wherever it DOES point), or has other ways of finding it.
>
> Currently it _does_ have to point to the mailbox.
Q1: The race is only possible by the kernel changing the thread
pointer?
Q2: Given that libthr has been ported to ia64, what needs to be done
to port libkse to ia64 (roughtly)?
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